Inspiration is not an actual one series, but total of two print series that I created for the exhibition in Sodankylä Film Festival 2011, organized by cooperative Plankko. Besides these two series, there was also a third series exhibited, Lost Filmstars.

When I started to think about exhibition inspiration, I didn’t have to go far: there have been some images in my head just waiting to be realized. Print series Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari, Reprise I-IV and On the Set: City, House, Room both have been inspirated by an old silent horror film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Das Kabinett des Dr. Caligari, director Robert Wiene, screenplay Carl Mayer and Hans Janowitz, Germany 1920). I saw the film for the first time when I had just started school and I was barely able to read the text cards in between the scenes. The strange and a little bit daunting atmosphere of the film and the bizarre and peculiar sets stuck in my mind.